Disintegrating and delivering magazine for travelers for ring-spinning frames.



A. A. LOVE-TOY. DISINTEGBATING AND DELIVERING MAGAZINE FOR TRAVELERS FOR RING SPINNING FRAMES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1908.

Patented Apr. 6, 1909.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1908:

Patented Apr. 6, 1909.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1908.

Patented Apr. 6, 1909.,

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WITNESSES ALFRED ADELBERT LOVEJOY, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

No. emcee.

Specification oi Application filed June 22, 1908.

Ea-tented April 6, 1909.

Serial No. $39,786.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ALrnnn LOVEJOY, of Lowell, in the county of sex and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Disintegrating and Delivering Magazines for Travelers for Ring-Spinning Frames, of which the following description, with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

Like characters on the drawings denote like parts.

My improvements consist in certain new and useful combinations of parts which, taken together, constitute a disintegrator for chains or bunches of travelers, a deliverer of separated travelers, and a magazine for travelers 'l'or ring-spinning-irames.

Travelers for use in ring-spinning are furnished to the yarn-spinner in packages wi"hin which they are found more or less linked together, or entangled in chains or hunches. This linking or entangling is more serious in small than in large sizes, thus in the packages which contain the small sizes, 16/0 or 18/0, all of the travelers in an ordinary merchantable package may be found by the yarn-spinner to be united in a single bunch. 111 the use of such travelers, the operative takes a single one between the thumb and finger and springs it into a position where it nearly surrounds the upper llange of the spinning ring. But operatives are "frequently hurried or careless in taking the travelers from the package. it is quicker and easier to take more than one traveler between the thuih and finger from the package at a time, and, when the operative is hurried or careless, the travelers that are in excess ol' one do not always find their way back into the package. "i -Then a chain or bunch of travelers is removed from the package, the number lost is sometimes great. Hurried or careless operatives do not like to take the time and the pains to unlink, disentangle, unsnarl, or separate the travelers that are united in chains or bunches. Sometimes an operative in sheer lun will throw a small handful of travelers at another operative and a mechanical contrivance for making such throwing too diihcult to be conveniently indulged in is of practical utility.

he floors of ring-spinning rooms have quantities of travelers embedded therein, and the waste and sweepings from such floors conlviiddlethrough a l l l l l l l l l I l l l l 1 tain travelers in quantities. The calendar rolls of picking and lapping machines which receive such waste after it has been put usual but imperfect cleansing process an badly scored with travelen marks. Some oi the travelers which are thus embedded in floors or which have thus scored calender-rolls were broken before they did any mischief and my invention is not a remedy for such injuries by broken travelers. But so far as such injuries result from whole travelers, my invention is adapted to go far toward their prevention.

The objects of the invention are: to proide a mechanical disintegrator of chains or bunches of travelers; to deliver only a few entirely separated travelers at a time into a conveniently placed receiver from which the operative can easily and quickly take only a single tra eler at a time; and, to retain trave ers in hulk where they are comparatively inaccessible to unauthorized or playful persons, thus saving losses which commonly occur in travelers, in the time of t ieir use, and in injury to cotton waste, to spinning-room floors, and to calender-rolls.

The construction of disintegrating-anddelivering traveler-magazine which embodies my invention, which prefer, and which is adapted for travelers of size number 18/0 or larger, embodies a receptacle or for the reception of travelers for ring-spinning having a smooth interior for the easier delivery of travelers therefrom and having an orifice for their escape which leads from the lowest part of the interior of the receptacle. That interior is bounded by: hollow cylinder, with a vertical axis; a flat top, perpendicular to that axis; and, a conical *ottom, having the axis of the cone coincident with that oi the cylinder and the only slightly elevated apex of the cone in the center of the bottom. An uncovered receiver for the expelled travelers projects from the receptacle beneath the orifice. .lts rim and bottom are connected. by a double-curved surface that presents no corner into which a traveler may escape from the thumb or finger of the operative. A toot which is adapted'to be secured to the (noel-boardof a ring-spinning-frame projects from the receptacle, and fastening means for securing the foot to the creel-board are furnished.

The cover is screwed to the receptacle and serves to exclude dirt and foreign'substances receptacle clean.

dirt by means or Waste in the operatives hand. spiral spring is threaded upon the from the interior and to make the travelers that are contained therein comparatively inaccessible to unauthorized or playful perspindle, one of its ends pressing hgainst the sons. ior end of the journal and its other end The delivering feature of the invention has pressing against the hub of the blade which a different operation When the size of the oriis iastened to the spindle at its inner end. lice is adapted. to the size of the travelers it .ends to keep the blade near to the botthat are to be discharged theretlirough than tern of the receptacle, but permits it to When the size is not thus adapted. if large recede therefrom. li y means of the thunib travelers are to be discharged and the orifice lznob, the spindle and the blade may be is too small for them to pass through, the degiven a motion or rotation or of translation livering feature will be Wholly inoperative. in either direction. 'li'he preferable motion If small travelers to be discharged and ordinary operation. is one of rapidly rethe orifice is too large for such travelers, versed rotation tlirougha small angle. The they will pass through before they are enblade is shaped. much like a screw-propeller tirely separated from one another and so blade and cross-section of the blade is inmany at a time that it will be comparatively clined to the axis of the spindle. Its lowerdiflicult fcir the operative to take from the edge nearly touches *ithout scraping the receiver only a single traveler at a time. conical bottom of the receptacle and its But, if the size of the orifice is adapted to that outer end nearly touches Without scraping the cylindrical walls thereof. But more of the traveler, only such travelers as entirely separated from one another clearance is permissible between the end of pass through the critics and so few will pass the blade and the Walls of the receptacle than between the bottom oi the blade and through at a time that the operative can easily take from the receiver only a single the bottom of the receptacle. The blade is traveler at a time. It is only such an opermade narrow enough to permit it to pass ation of the delivering feature oi the device beneath a chain. or a bunch of travelers, and that is satisfactory. As a means for adap as the chain or the bunch moves up the ining the size of the orifice to the of the cline of the blade and falls over the top travelers to be discharged theretlirough thereof to the bottoi'n ol' the receptacle, supply, with each cover and. its attachments, such movements tend to disintegrate the a series of interchangeable receptacles each chain or the bunch. hen travelers in having an orifice of a size dili'erent from the chains or in bunches are in the receptacle, size of the orifice of any other receptacle of some part of a chain or a bunch will tend the series. To make this adaptation: the to get beneath the lower edge of the blade, cover with its attachments is unscrewed and the continued rotation and translation from the receptacle that has been oi the blade, especially if it be reciprocatory in use and screwed upon the one that it is desired to use; will tend to disintegrate the chain or the bunch. 'ihdisintegration is assisted by and, the receptacle that has been in use is V unfastened from the creel-board. and the on the frictional resistance of the interior of the that it is desired to use is tastened "hereto. receptacle to the motion over it oi the chain rr' i L j 1 'i i i ihis means is preferred to an equivalent one or buncn propelled by the elade an yieldwhich consists of a )illi) or )ZLTtS that are in l pressed b the siiral Slll)$2'. if a )art 1-D T 1 J 'I y 1 U or a chain or ounch gets caugnt in an ounce temporarily or permanently fastened to the ol the proper size the reciprocatory rotation nd translation oi the blade will detach such receptacle near the oriiice in an adjustable part from the remainder of the chain oi manner because it is convenient and. ll'=Q.X

pensive and because the part of the in tion Which is in actual use at any given bunch, and the blade Will expel it through is more simple and free from parts xrl the orifice. hen only entirely separated might interfere with the free delivery of travelers are in the receptacle, they Will not pass through the oriiice unless they are agitated or stirred But the continuous or travelers or with keeping the exterior of the reciprocating rotation of the blade Will expel them through the orifice into the receiver, a few at a time. i

"L he Whole invention then embodies means for disintegrating chains or bunches of travelers by separating each traveler from every other traveler oi a chain or of abunch.

it also einbodies rneans for expelling entirely separated. travelers, a few at a time, into a conveniently placed receiver from Which the operative can easily and quickly take only a single traveler at a time. rind, it embodies means for retaining a quantity V" lii A disintegrator and deliverer having a spindle is journaled in the cover With the axis of the spindle coincident with that of the hollow cylinder and the conical 'bottoin. Fastened to the spindle outside of its journal and the receptacle is a thumb-knob having a milled cylindrical surf ace and having only circular cross-sections tal-ten at right-angles With the axis of the spindle. I sl ape and inilled surface, taken together, make it admirably adapted to be moved by the thumb and finger of the operative and at the same time to be easily kept free from flyings and preferred form of the invention in elevation,

the spring inacessible to unauthorized or playful persons.

in the drawings:

of travelers where they are comparatively l F igurel represents the r with a portion of the creel-board of a ringspinning-frame in cross-section; Fig. 2, in sectional-plan on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3, with a part of the receiver removed; and, Fig. 3, in sectional-elevation on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, with a part of the receiver removed. Fig. 4- re resents a vertical section of the spindle and blade at line 4 i of Fig. 2. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 represent a modification in. which the I spindle and blade are not integral and in which the cover is secured upon the box by a simple frictional joint. Figs. 8, 9, and 10, represent a modification in which the bottom of the receptacle is fiat but inclined to the horizontal. Figs. 11, 12, and 13 represent portions of a series of interchangeable receptacles having orifices varying in area.

In the figures: 1, represents the receptacle; 2, the cover; 3, the spindle; 4, the blade; 5, 6, the thumb-knob; 7, the orifree; 8, the receiver for travelers that have been discharged through the orifice; 9, the foot or projection from the receptacle; 10, the hole in the foot or projection for the at taching screw or bolt; 11, an attaching screw; and. 12, a portion of the creel-board of a ring-spinning-frame to which the disintegrating and delivering traveler-magazine may be attached.

I claim 1. Means for disintegrating chains and bunches of travelers, embodying, in combination: a receptacle for travelers; a journal supported thereupon; a spindle mounted in the journal and adapted for reciprocatory rotation and translation relatively to the receptacle; and, a blade fastened to the spindle, cooperating with the interior of the receptacle, and adapted for the disintegration of chains and bunches of travelers.

2. Means for disintegrating chains and bunches of travelers, embodying, in combination: a receptacle for travelers; a journal supported thereupon; a spindle mounted in the journal and adapted for reciprocatory rotation and translation relatively to the receptacle; a handle fastened to the spindle; and, a blade fastened to the spindle, cooperating with the interior of the receptacle, and adapted for the disintegration of chains and bunches of travelers.

3. In combination: a receptacle for travelers having an orifice; a journal supported thereupon; a spindle mounted in the journal and adapted for reciprocatory rotation and translation relatively to the receptacle; and, a blade located within the receptacle and adapted to expel travelers through the orifice.

4:. ln combination: a receptacle for travelers having an orifice; a journal supporte thereupon; a spindle mounted in the journal and adapted for reciprocatory rotation and translation relatively to the receptacle; a handle fastened to the spindle; and, a blade located within the receptacle and adapted to expel travelers through the orifice.

5. A receptacle for travelers: having an interior that is bounded by a hollow cylinder with a vertical axis, a flat top that is erpendicular to that axis, and a conical ottom having the axis of the cone coincident with that of the cylinder and having the slightly elevated apex of the cone in the center of the bottom; having an orifice that leads from the lowest part of the interior of the receptacle; having a receiver projecting therefrom beneath the orifice and having no corner into which a traveler can pass; having a cover screwed thereto and integral with a journal that is adapted to receive the spindle of a isintegrator and deliverer with its axis coincident with the axes of the hollow-cylinder and the conical bottom; and having a foot projecting therefrom which is adapted to be fastened to the creel-board of a ringspinhing-frame.

6. In combination: a receptacle for travelers having an orifice, a receiver, and a cover secured thereto and having a journal; a spindle mounted in the journal and adapted for reciprocatory rotation and translation therein; a tl'iunrblrnob fastened to the outer end of the spindle; a blade fastened to the spindle, contained within the receptacle, and adapted to expel travelers from the orifice and in cooperation with the interior of the receptacle to disintegrate chains and bunches of travelers; and a spring adapted to yieldingly press the blade toward the bottom of the receptacle.

7. Means for disintegrating chains and bunches of travelers, embodying, in combination: a receptacle for travelers; a journal supported thereupon; a spindle mounted in the journal and adapted for rotation relatively to the receptacle; and, a blade: fastened to the spindle; extending to that part of the bottom of the interior of the receptacle which is most distant from its center; having its lower edge constructed to nearly touch the bottom of the receptacle in any angular position of the blade; having its crosssection inclined at an angle with the axis of the spindle; and, having a distance between the upper edge of the blade and the under side of the cover of the receptacle.

In testimony whereof, I affix my in the presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED ADELBERT LOVEJOY.

signature Witnesses CHANNING W HITAKER, IRVING D. KIMBALL. 

